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  • 06-07-2009 7:16pm
    #1
    WinstonSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭


    This probably applies only to teachers and not lecturers but all ar welcome. I'm NQT and did my dissertation on the theory behind teaching. I'm wondering which theorusts' opinions most people would favour. The big three I'm thinking of would be Piaget, Vygotsky and Dewey.


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  • #2
    anoisaris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭anoisaris


    WinstonSmith wrote: »
    This probably applies only to teachers and not lecturers but all ar welcome. I'm NQT and did my dissertation on the theory behind teaching. I'm wondering which theorusts' opinions most people would favour. The big three I'm thinking of would be Piaget, Vygotsky and Dewey.

    Shouldn't theories behind teaching apply to teaching anything to anyone at any level not just in school?


  • #3
    WinstonSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭WinstonSmith


    anoisaris wrote: »
    Shouldn't theories behind teaching apply to teaching anything to anyone at any level not just in school?

    Well perhaps somebody could correct me but I don't think so. I think once you get to a certain standard/maturity, the method of teaching is more concerned with discussion and debate to generate and eliminate ideas (I'm thinking specifically here of teaching at university) as opposed to the method employed in second level education where a lot of the emphasis is on learning through fun and games, such as the employment of active learning. granted these theories apply throughout the age cohorts, but (and its important to note that I have carried out zero research on this part) I suspect that the amount learnt through game playing, sports and fun as one gets older decreases, thus the shift towards more intellectually-stimulating discussions.


  • #4
    anoisaris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭anoisaris


    Active learning is "learning by doing" not limited to fun and games. If active learning wasn't employed at University level a science lecturer would have students that never set foot in a lab, a physio lecturer would have students that never touched another's limbs and an education lecturer would have students that never tried to teach during their university life.


  • #5
    WinstonSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭WinstonSmith


    true. I must apologise as I was being very narrow minded and thinking only of my own subject area. Let me re-phrase the question then and ask whether people prefer the theories of Dewey or Vygotsky, since they are both premised on the active learning principle?


  • #6
    dahamster
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭dahamster


    What about Kolb?


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